To safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

To use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.

To represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

Pupils should be taught:

• To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

• To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

• To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

• About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.

Pupils should be taught:

• To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas

• To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]

• About great artists, architects and designers in history.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Capture experiences and responses with a range of media.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to: 

• Make marks in print using a variety of objects including natural and man-made objects.

• Carry out different printing techniques e.g. monoprint, block, relief and resist printing.

• Make rubbings.

• Build a repeating pattern and recognise pattern in the environment.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 pupils will be able to:

• Use a variety of materials, objects and techniques including carbon, relief, press and fabric printing and rubbings e.g. tracing paper.

• Design patterns of increasing complexity and repetition.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 pupils will be able to:

• Print using a variety of materials, objects and techniques, including layering.

• Talk about the processes used to produce a simple print.

• Explore pattern and shape creating designs for printing.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Research, create and refine a print using a variety of techniques.

• Select broadly the kind of material to print with, in order to get the desired effect.

• Resist printing e.g. marbling, silkscreen and cold water paste.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Build up layers, colours and textures.

• Organise their wok in terms of pattern, repetition, symmetry or random printing styles e.g. lino printing.

• Choose inks and overlay colours.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Describe varied techniques.

• Be familiar with layering prints.

• Be confident with printing on paper and fabric.

• Alter and modify work.

• Work relatively independently.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Understand that they can use lines to enclose space and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

• Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to: 

• Use a variety of tools including pencils, crayons, rubbers, pastels, felt tips, charcoal, ball points, chalk and other dry media.

• Use line, shape and colour.

• Use line drawing to draw objects seen, remembered or imagined.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to: 

• Layer different media e.g. crayons, felt tips, charcoal and ballpoint pen.

• Draw for a sustained period of time from a figure and real objects, including single and grouped objects.

• Experiment with the visual elements; line, shape, pattern and colour.

• Investigate tone.

• Draw shapes between objects – space.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements.

• Use different media to achieve variations in line, texture, tone, colour, shape and pattern.

• Plan, refine and alter their drawings as necessary.

• Draw for a sustained period of time at their own level.

• Shade and begin to infill shapes to create forms producing a range of tones

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 pupils will be able to:

• Select different techniques for different purposes e.g. shading or hatching, ways in which a rubber may be used to develop tone.

• Use research to inspire drawings; express feelings through drawings.

• Alter and refine drawings and describe changes using art vocabulary.

• Draw confidently from observation; develop knowledge of the proportions and layout of the human face and draw more complicated still life.

• Use simple perspective.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to: 

• Show experience in creating tonal contrast and select different techniques for different purposes e.g. shading and hatching.

• Use a variety of source material.

• Work in a sustained and independent way.

• Show knowledge of the correct proportions and layout of the human face and figure.

• Draw familiar things from different viewpoints.

• Use simple perspective.

• Work show influences of a range of artists’ styles.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to: 

• Manipulate and experiment with the elements of art: line, tone, pattern, texture, form, space, colour and shape.

• Show increasing attention to detail and skill in colour mixing, matching and blending techniques with colouring.

• Work in a sustained and independent way to create a detailed drawing.

• Begin to develop an awareness of composition, scale and proportion e.g. fore, middle and background.

• Identify artists who have worked in a similar way to their own work.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Use a range of colour and know how colours can be changed.

• Capture experiences and responses with a range of media.

• Know what happens when colours are mixed.

• Be able to select particular colours for a purpose.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 pupils will be able to:

• Use a variety of tools and techniques, including the use of different brush sizes and types.

• Mix and match colours to artefacts and objects.

• Create different textures e.g. use of sawdust, sand and plaster in paint.

• Identify primary and secondary colours and mix secondary colours using pre-mixed paint.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Use a range of tools and techniques including layering, mixing media, scraping etc.

• Name different types of paint and their properties.

• Work on a range of scales e.g. large brush on large paper.

• Mix and match colours using artefacts and objects.

• Create different shades of colour by changing the tone using pre-mixed paint.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Use colour related vocabulary e.g. monochrome, primary, secondary, tone and shade.

• Experiment with different effects and textures including block in colour, washes, thickened paint.

• Work with increasing confidence on a range of scales.

• Mix a variety of tones to create a monochrome painting.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Show increasing independence and creativity within the painting process; justify media choice.

• Use more specific colour language e.g. tertiary, tint, hue.

• Plan and create different effects and textures; use different thicknesses of paintbrushes and paint to achieve variations in line, form, tone, colour, shape and pattern.

• Work with confidence on a range of scales.

• Experiment with water colour.

• Make and match colours with increasing accuracy including tertiary colours.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Demonstrate a secure knowledge about primary and secondary, warm and cold, complementary and contrasting colours.

• Mix and work with complementary colours.

• Create imaginative work from a variety of sources.

• Choose paints and tools appropriate to the task.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Choose appropriate paint, paper and implements to adapt and extend their work.

• Work from a variety of sources including those researched independently.

• Show an awareness of how paintings are created (composition).

• Carry out preliminary studies, test media and materials and mix appropriate colours.

• Identify, mix and work with harmonious colours.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Capture experiences and responses with a range of media.

• Construct with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.

• Use simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.

• Select tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will eb able to:

• Manipulate clay in a variety of ways e.g. rolling, kneading and shaping.

• Produce sculpture using a range of malleable media, especially clay.

• Manipulate for a purpose e.g. thumb and/or coil pot.

• Experiment with, construct and join recycled, natural and man-made materials.

• Explore shape and form.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Build a textured relief tile.

• Experiment with, construct and join recycled, natural and man-made materials with confidence.

• Understand the basic care and safety of materials and tools.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Join clay adequately and work reasonably independently.

• Construct a simple clay base for extending and modelling other shapes

• Make a simple papier-mâché object.

• Plan, design and make models.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Make informed choices about the 3D technique chosen.

• Plan, design, make and adapt models.

• Show an understanding of shape, space and form.

• Talk about their work understanding that it has been sculpted, modelled or constructed.

• Use a variety of materials e.g. mod-roc, clay and wood.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Describe the different qualities involved in modelling, sculpture and construction.

• Use recycled, natural and man-made material to create sculpture

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Work with clay including slabs, slips, mod-roc etc.

• Create a sculpture and construct with increasing independence.

• Use a mould as part of the creative process.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Show an interest in the texture of things.

• Capture experiences and responses with a range of media.

• Experiment to create different textures.

• Understand that different media can be combined to create new effects.

• Manipulate materials to achieve a planned effect.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to:

• Experiment with a variety of techniques including simple and fabric crayons.

• Use a threaded needle, cut, glue and trim material.

• Create images from imagination, experience or observation.

• Use a wide variety of media including photocopied material, fabric, plastic, tissue, magazines and crepe paper.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Create textured collages from a variety of media.

• Use a variety of techniques, including finger knitting.

• Sew using pre-punched felt, knot and use other manipulative skills.

• Cut, glue and trim material with increasing accuracy.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Use a variety of techniques, including French knitting.

• Thread a needle and develop skills in stitching, cutting and joining material.

• Experiment with a range of media e.g. overlapping, layering, etc.

• Make a simple mosaic.

• Name the tools and materials used.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Use a variety of techniques including binka and embroidery.

• Extend skills in stitching, knotting and decorating material.

• Match the tool to the material.

• Extend their work within a specified technique.

• Refine and alter ideas explaining choices.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Join fabrics in different ways, using different grade needles and a variety of threads, including stitching.

• Use a variety of techniques including applique.

• Use a range of media to create collage.

• Choose collage or textiles as a means of extending work already achieved.

Year 6

By the end if Year 6 children will be able to: 

• Use a variety of techniques including batik printing and quilting.

• Use different techniques, colours, textiles and other media when designing and making pieces of work.

• Be expressive and analytical in order to adapt, extend and justify their own and peers work.

• Show awareness of the potential uses of material.

EYFS

• To develop a preference for forms of expression.

• To notice what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there.

• To select appropriate resources and adapt work where necessary.

Year 1

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT to create a computer-generated picture showing line, shape and colour.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design.

Year 2

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT to explore ideas using digital sources.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design.

• Explore a range of starting points for practical work e.g. themselves, their experiences, natural and man-made objects and the local environment.

Year 3

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design.

• The roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures.

Year 4

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design.

• The roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures.

Year 5

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design

• The roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures.

Year 6

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.

• Use ICT.

• Investigate different kinds of art, craft and design.

• The roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures.